Railway-switch.



No. 768,973. PATENTED AUG. 30, 1904. M. BARNES.

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RAILWAY SWITCH.

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ArtNr RAILWAY-SWITCH.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 768,973, dated. August30, 1904.

Application iled November 18, 1903. Serial No. 181,609. (No model To(LN, whom t may concern:

Be it known that l, MILo BARNES, acitizen of the United States, and aresident of Syracuse, in the county of Onondaga and State of New York,have invented a new and Improved Railway-Switch, of which the followingis a full, clear, and exact description.

This invention vrelates to improvements in switches, particularly foruse on street-railways, an object being to provide a simple switch thancan be.moved by a motorman without stopping' the car to direct the carin any one of three directions. l

l will describe a railway-switch embodying' my invention and then pointout the novel features in the appended claims.

Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings, forminga part ofthis specification, in which similar characters ot' reference indicatecorresponding parts in all the figures.

Figure 1 is a section on the line m fc of Fig. 2 or' a switch mechanismembodying my invention, showing the device carried by a car foroperating' the switch. Fig. 2 is a plan view of the switch. Figs. 8 and4 are also plan views showing the switch turned in different directions,and Eig. 5 is a bottom view ot' the shitting device.

Referring' to the drawings, l 2 designate the main-track rails, and 8 4the continuations thereof on the switch-plate 5. A switch-rail 6 on thcplate extends from the rail 1, and from the rail 2 a switch-rail. 7extends, these rails 6 T being divergent, so as to direct a car inopposite directions. A rail 8 on the plate is in parallelism with therail 6 and forms a companion therefor, and a similar rail 9 on the plateis a companion for the rail 7. The outer edges of these rails 8 and 9are arranged close to the rails 8 4, and these edges form guards for thecar-wheels, and guards 10 11 are provided for the rails 6 7.

Extended from the rails 8 9 toward the main rails 1 2 are switch-tongues12 13. These switch-tongues are mounted to swing on the plate 5, andthey are connected one' with the other by a cross-head 14, arrangedunderneath the plate and attached or formed integral with anoperating-lever 15. rlhis cross-head 14, it will be noted, is pivotallyconnected to the switch-rails. From the end of the lever a pin 16extends upward through an opening 17 in the switch-plate and is designedto engage with a device carried by the car for shifting theswitch-tongues. The opening 17 is in the form of a slot to permit thefree movement of the pin, and to prevent the entrance ot' snow, dirt,and the like a plate 18 is connected to the pin andai-ran ged to slideon the top of the plate 5 to cover the slot.

The shifting device carried by a car consists of a shoe 19, having onits under side divergent walls 20, which terminate between the front andrear ends otl the shoe, and these walls communicate with the parallelwalls of a slot 21, the width of which is just sufhcient to permit thefree entry of the pin 16. The shifting device may be connected to thecar in any desired manner, so as to be operated by the motormans foot orotherwise-that is, operated to raise it Yand lower it.- As here shown,it is connected to a rod 22, which eX- tends upward through an openingin the carplatt'orm 28 and also through a bracket 24, and this rod notonly has rotary movement, but may be raised and lowered. On the upperend of the rod above the bracket 24 is an operating-handle 25, which mayengage in any one of a series ot' notches formed in a rack 26, the saidrack being' on the bracket 24.

In the operation it will be noted that in Eig. 2 the main line isopen4that is, a car will pass off the rails 1 2 and continue on therails 8 4, and the switch-tongues, which are divergent from theirpivoted ends at this time, will lie in central position, and the beveledends 27 of said switch-tongues will form guards for the wheel-flanges.Should the switch-tongues bein this position and it is desired to runthe car on the switch comprising' the rails 7 and 9, the motorman willlower the shoe, at the same time turning it with the front end extend edtoward the right, so that the slot 21 will be at an angle, as indicatedin Fig. 3. As the car approaches the divergent walls 2O of the shoe willengage the pin, it being understood that the rod 22 is lowered at thistime by the lever being in the proper notch, and when the pin passes IOOinto the slot 21 the switch-tongues will be shifted into the positionindicated in Fig. 3. Then the car will pass Afrom the main rails Il 2along the switch-tongue l) and the rails 7 and 9. For passing over theother switchrails obviously the shoe must be turned in an oppositedirection to that above described and as indicated in Fig. et. The carwill then pass over the switch-tongue l2 and the rails 6 and 8.

Having thus described my invention I claim as new and desire to secureby Letters Patent v l. The combination with three-way tracks of arailway-switcli comprising two switchpoints divergent from their pivotalpoints, a bar pivotally connected to the two switchpoints, and a leverextended from said bar and adapted to be moved by a device carried by acar for shitting the points.

2. A railway-switch comprising two swinging switch-points divergent fromtheir pivotal ends, a shifting-lever, a cross-head rigidly connected tosaid shifting-lever and having pivotal connection with theswitch-points, rails extended from the pivoted ends ot' theswitch-points, main-rail continuations near said first-named rails, anddivergent outer switch-rails.

3. A railway-switch comprising a switchplate, two switch-tongues pivotedthereon and. divergent Vfrom their pivoted ends, three-way trackscomprised in the switch, a lever, a cross-head on said lever having'pivotal connection with the switch-points, the said lever beinglunderneath the switch-plate, the said plate having an opening, a pinextended upward from the lever through said opening', a plate carriedwith said pin over the Aopening, and a device carried by a car torengaging with said pin.

4. In a switch mechanism, pivoted switchtongnes, an operating-leverhaving pivotal connection with both ot said tongues, a pin extendedupward from said lever, a shitting device carried by a car, the shittingdevice comprisingl a shoe having' divergent walls on its under sideconnecting` with the parallel walls otl a slot formed in the shoe, andmeans for moving said shoe in a rotary direction.

ln testimony wh erect I have signed my name to this spccilication in thepresence ot' two subscribing witnesses.

' MIL@ BARNES.

Witnesses: Y

CLARENCE HUBERT SWEET, FRANK ,ELwooD AVERY.

